Electronic music: Don Slepian in concert at Shawnee

Keyboardist Don Slepian will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the lobby at The Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort, Shawnee-on-Delaware.

Keyboardist Don Slepian will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the lobby at The Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort, Shawnee-on-Delaware.

Born into a scientific family, Slepian combines skills in music and electronics in a career of performing original, improvised electronic music in Renaissance, Baroque and Romantic styles as a classitronic keyboardist. He designs and builds computer instruments, presents interactive video webcasts and mentors electronic keyboardists.

By 1969, Slepian was programming computers, building electronic music circuitry and sampling, looping and cross-fading sounds with classic electronic music studio tape techniques. By 1972, he was on the early Internet as part of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's ALOHA project, building and testing network packet data transmission. As a classitronic keyboardist, he was a synthesizer soloist with the Honolulu Symphony and Music Directory for Honolulu Theater For Youth.

Slepian was presented by WNYC's "New Sounds" show at Lincoln Center in New York, N.Y., by the French Ministry of Culture for a week-long residency at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and by the Karen Baptist Church for performances in the refugee camps at Burma and Thailand. He designs instruments and performs in his Pocono studio.